Sir Nicholas Stadlen obituary

High court judge and stellar QC who delivered the longest speech in British legal history – and made a feted documentary in later lifeNicholas Stadlen, who has died of mesothelioma aged 73, rose to the pinnacle of his profession as a commercial lawyer and high court judge before retiring early from the bench in 2013. Then he opened a new chapter by interviewing five survivors from among Nelson Mandela’s co-defendants and legal team at the Rivonia trial of 1963-64 for a documentary fi